Aeroplane landing device



April 13, 11126.- 1,580,902

` B. KAczoRowsKl- AEROPLANE LANDING DEVICE Filed July 9, 1925 -A "N Y PA -",3 /l

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. AEBQPDANE LANDING DEVICE.

Application filed July `9,

To all' whom, it may concern:.

Be it known .that I, BERNARD Kacaon-v lIOWSKI, a'citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State -ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AeroplaneLanding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

- This invention relates to improvements in starting and ladingplatforms for aeroplanes or similar flying machines, and 'it 1s theprincipal object of the invention to provide such a platform incombination witha balloon and'means for raising and lowering theplatform carried by the gas bag- .4 Another xlobject of the invention isthe provision of a vplatform for starting and landing aeroplanesequippedwith a roller face for facilitating the start of the planes.

A further Jobject of the invention is to provide in combination with astarting and landing platform for aeroplanes combined with a lifting gasbag, a means for storing the aeroplanes protected against the nlu encesof weather and attacks by an enemy when lowered with theirl platform.

A still further object of the invention is the Vprovision'of novel andimproved means' for guiding the rising anddescending platform with theaeroplane thereon during its vertical'displacement.

Theseand other objects and advantages of the invention will become"`morefully known as the description thereof proceeds; and will then be morefully defined in the appended claims. y

In the accompanying drawing, `forming a material part of thisdisclosure:

60 f chamber 12. r Suitable-supports 13, 14 are ,t0

'the present invention.

per part of a gas bag 11 or the like adapted to be lowered into a pit orunderground arranged in the pit and secured to the bottom thereof, andact as journals',` for theends of a horizontally disposed shaft 15carrying near its ends drums 16, 17 upon'which the cables 18, 19 arewound,'the free ends of lowering means tolxid 192s. 'serial no. 42,431.

which are` attached to( suitable'` eyes or the like 20 on the lower faceofthe gas bag or) bags, if,as for instance indicated" in Figure 2, morethan one bag is used. The rear .part of the platform 10 1s equippedwitha roller platform 21 or the like for facilitating the starting of theaeroplane 22 as it.' is adapted to be engaged 'by the rear n 23 of thevsame. g

A motor 24 is located within the pit,12 on a suitable support 25er thelike, and the shaft 15 carries near the motor agear 26` in mesh with thegear 27 on the motor shaft, while a coupling member 22 integral withgear 26 is adapted to be enga ed with or disengaged from a similar couping vmember 29 slidably arrangedA on shaft 15' and adapted' to beoperated` by a shifting lever 30 or the like operating a shiftinglmember in the welluknown manner. v

When the aeroplane is not in use it can be wheeled off the iplatform 10into a suitable hangar 31 o the like protected on top, or said plane canalso be storedinv any convenient place or what is commonly called avpit, meaning a suitable parking place roped off or otherwise separatedand especially designated. i A

In the modified form of the invention disclosed in Figure 3, theplatform 10 is conn'ected to two gas bags or balloons 32, 33.l

provided with guide rollers 34 or the like at their ends adapted toengage and to be guided along vertical posts 35 connected on top bvbars36, and braced by suitable braces 37 or the like. The operating parts inthis form are the same as described above wit respect to thepreferredform.

While I have shown and describedwthe preferred forms of m -invention asan exi ample of the practi embodiments, it will be understood thatsuchchan es as fall-withf in the-,scope of the appende claims may be made'inthe' construction without departure from the s irit of the invention.

`Having t us described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. Starting landing platform foraei'oplanes' comprising a platform, a gas bag named platform, meanseri-nlaid gas ba' coup g and un Iliich said* latform 1s secured, aroller 'platform combined with part of said Afirst a means for guidingsaid gas bag during its movements. y

2. Starting and landing platform for aeroplanes comprising a platform, avgas bag combined therewith adapted to be lowered into a pit and raisedtherefrom, a horizontal shaft in said pit, drums on said shaft, cableswound about said drums and secured to said bag, a means for facilitatingthe start of the aeroplanes from said platform, a motor, and means forcoupling and un coupling said motor from said shaft;

3. Starting and landing platform for aeroplanes comprising a platform,gas bags carrying said platform and adapted to be lowered into a pit, aframe over said pit, rollers at the ends of the as bags adapted toengage vertical bars o? said frame for guiding said bag and latformduring their movements to raise and) lower said platform, and means foroperatin said gas bags and the platform and aerop ane thereon to riseabove the pit and to be lowered into the same.

In testimony whereof I have aixed my signature.

BERNARD KACZOROWSKI.

